

Big events happen: I got transferred, and Shax died.

I think you especially saw that in our Season 1 finale. “They grow, they change, they learn things about themselves, and they rank up – they get demoted. “You could easily write us off as ‘the funny Star Trek show,’ but I love that Mike and the writers made sure to make these people feel as real as possible,” says Quaid. Actually, make that Lieutenant Boimler.Īt the end of Lower Decks Season 1, Brad was promoted and transferred off the sleepy USS Cerritos – and, in theory, plunged straight into the action with Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) on the USS Titan.īoimler on the bridge of the USS Titan in the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks. However Quaid plays the character, it appears a good bet that his interpretation will exist far removed from the darker Superman of Zack Snyder’s DC entries, and perhaps closer to what we’ve seen of the beloved character on The CW’s Superman and Lois.Īttack on Titan – For Trek fans, Quaid is already associated with earnest, well-meaning characters through his portrayal of the anxiously buttoned-up Ensign Bradward Boimler. “He's very earnest and just wants the best for everyone.”

“There’s like this sheer purity to him,” Quaid says.
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Having the opportunity to portray this legendary character is “a gift,” he adds, though he can’t reveal much else about his upcoming take on the Man of Tomorrow – other than he’s researching with the help of the DC comic series All-Star Superman. “Playing Superman is the other side of the coin,” says Quaid.

In that context, taking on the titular role in My Adventures With Superman felt like a refreshing change of pace. “It's all terrible: fun to watch, but terrible!” “In the world of The Boys, people are covered in blood all the time and screaming,” Quaid tells Inverse. Superman himself, a far cry from his best-known role in Amazon’s blood-soaked superhero series. Next, Quaid will expand his range by starring in HBO Max’s My Adventures With Superman, an animated series in which he’ll play. After two seasons playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s smash-hit series The Boys, Quaid joined the Star Trek franchise, lending his nervous vocal stylings to the role of Brad Boimler in Paramount+’s animated Lower Decks. Never been nominated for anything involving my face before.Whichever fandom you belong to, there’s a good chance Jack Quaid is involved. When he shared the news on Instagram, he wrote, "This is a gigantic cruel prank right? If not: Thanks, This is so cool.
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For his role on the show, he was recently nominated for an MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Hero. Jack plays a member of the vigilante group who tries to take them down. The show takes place in a world in which superheroes are big celebrities but are also corrupt and abuse their power. His role on The Boys, which debuted in 2019, has brought him more attention. Jack will also star in the upcoming sequel Scream (the fifth in the series).
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Since then, he's had many film, TV, and voice acting roles, including the romantic comedy Plus One, the HBO series Vinyl, the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, and his current series, Amazon Prime's The Boys. Speaking to Interview in 2011, he said of the role, "When I got cast, I was told that people would be spitting on me in the streets."
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His first professional acting role came in 2012 when he appeared in The Hunger Games as Marvel, a bad-guy rival of lead character Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence). Prior to acting professionally, Jack attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
